May 2010

Vol. 75, No. 5

Cover

By Christina Capecchi
With their preference for retro liturgical fashion and their homilies on birth control, today's newly ordained are shaking up the status quo. Christina Capecchi reports on the changes they're bringing in both style and stubstance.

Interview

An interview with Sister Carol Keehan, D.C.
The health care debate pitted not only political parties against one another; it caused an argument in the Catholic family as well. The Catholic Health Association's Sister Carol Keehan, D.C. explains why the CHA broke with the bishops in support of health care reform.

Sounding Board

By John J. Donovan
Older adults deserve more than bingo from parishes. They're hungry to keep learning about their faith, argues John J. Donovan. In Feedback readers ask if we are teaching our elders well.

Feature

By Heather Grennan Gary
Evangelicals are the cheerleaders of the Christian world, and Catholics could learn a thing or two from them when it comes to a rallying the younger crowd, reports Heather Grennan Gary. But we may need to get out of our bleancer-bound comfort zone and into the game.

Essays

By Vinita Hampton Wright
Mother's Day can be downright miserable for women who have no children of their own, but Vinita Hampton WRight has discovered in her own life a broader understanding of motherhood.

Out of sight, out of mind

By Joseph F. Kelly
Seen any priests lately--outside of Mass, that is? Joseph F. Kelly argues that the priest shortage has no become a self-perpetuating problem.